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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110606/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_billboard
The sign on Alamogordo's main thoroughfare shows 35-year-old Greg Fultz holding the outline of an infant. The text reads, "This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!"
Fultz's ex-girlfriend has taken him to court for harassment and violation of privacy. A domestic court official has recommended the billboard be removed.
But Fultz's attorney argues the order violates his client's free speech rights.
"As distasteful and offensive as the sign may be to some, for over 200 years in this country the First Amendment protects distasteful and offensive speech," Todd Holmes said.
OK, let's first get this out of the way. This man is an ass. I can sympathize with mourning an unborn child that he didn't want to be aborted, or if possibly a miscarriage, but this is just cruel.
Having said that, does he have a point in-as-so-far as freedom of speech?
The sign on Alamogordo's main thoroughfare shows 35-year-old Greg Fultz holding the outline of an infant. The text reads, "This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!"
Fultz's ex-girlfriend has taken him to court for harassment and violation of privacy. A domestic court official has recommended the billboard be removed.
But Fultz's attorney argues the order violates his client's free speech rights.
"As distasteful and offensive as the sign may be to some, for over 200 years in this country the First Amendment protects distasteful and offensive speech," Todd Holmes said.
OK, let's first get this out of the way. This man is an ass. I can sympathize with mourning an unborn child that he didn't want to be aborted, or if possibly a miscarriage, but this is just cruel.
Having said that, does he have a point in-as-so-far as freedom of speech?